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Despite a fiery presentation from Fogg Museum director Seymour Slive, the commission members could not understand why the University needed to demolish a century-old house to make room for the museum's expansion. So they refused to grant a demolition permit...
Ruling that a three-story frame house was "historically significant," the Cambridge Historical Commission yesterday refused to grant Harvard a demolition permit for a home at 1746 Cambridge St., slated to be torn down as part of the Fogg Museum expansion...
Seymour N. Slive, director of the Fogg, said after the commission meeting that his staff "would certainly take seriously the community suggestions and go back to the drafting board...
...board did grant a demolition permit for 1750 Cambridge St., another house more directly in the path of the Fogg expansion, scheduled to begin sometime this year...
Slive who said the Fogg was "bursting at the seams," called the building "a last gasp of the mansard style," adding that it was "out of context with the neighborhood...